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Review Granted provides a brief synopsis of recent cases in which the Virginia Supreme Court has granted petitions for appeal. This feature appears in the last issue of Virginia Lawyers Weekly each month. The information provided comes from the successful ...

Fired store detective wins judgment A federal jury awarded $130,000 to a Wal-Mart detective who sued the store after being fired amid accusations that she stole thousands of dollars. Valerie L. Vaughan had said she was fired because she is ...

A mother ordered to pay fees for a guardian ad litem and a psychologist used in a custody dispute cannot discharge those debts in bankruptcy, a Roanoke bankruptcy judge has ruled. Although the debt for the guardian ad litem was ...

The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners just released the list of the 870 candidates who passed the July bar examination; these happy and relieved people will become real lawyers today at an admission ceremony to be held in Richmond. The ...

Debtors who keep a pickup truck under a chapter 13 repayment plan should repay the vehicle’s current retail value from the NADA Used Car Guide, a federal judge in Big Stone Gap has ruled. The decision represents a shift in ...

Whoever said “the more things change, the more they stay the same” must have been looking at Virginia’s legal job market. Though the year on the calendar is different, 1995 graduates have had about the same experience on the job ...

But bar will help lobby HOT SPRINGS–The Virginia State Bar will back efforts to increase state funding for legal aid programs, but it will not directly fund the programs itself. The VSB Council voted Oct. 20 to line up with ...

The double jeopardy defense is only one of several spawned by this year’s revisions to DUI law. Other defenses may continued to be argued, defense attorneys said. The most widely mentioned alternative argument is based on collateral estoppel. Under this ...

The Court of Appeals rejected the DUI Double Jeopardy defense in an opinion issued last week. An 8-1 majority ruled that a license suspension after a driver is arrested for DUI does not constitute punishment that will trigger double jeopardy ...

After a recent flurry of radical redesigns, many car manufacturers seem to be sitting back and catching their breath in 1996. That’s not to say there aren’t new models out there — just not quite as many. Pontiac, Chevrolet and ...